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It’s a done deal: Google has completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest

Google completed its acquisition of Nest on February 7, it was revealed today in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The $3.2 billion deal was one of Google’s most high-profile and unexpected buyouts in recent memory, obtaining the hardware company’s portfolio of home automation devices and staff, led by former iPod designer Tony Fadell.

Last month, the ex-Apple visionary described some of the meetings he had with Larry Page and other Google executives prior to the deal’s completion:

“The two-way interchange of what was, for me, intellectual happiness and the stimulation of being able to go back and forth and really create a new world together – and in a different way than either of us had imagined – that was personally exciting to me.”

Nick Summers is a technology journalist for The Next Web. He writes on all sorts of topics, although he has a passion for gadgets, apps and video games in particular. You can reach him on Twitter, circle him on Google+ and connect with him on LinkedIn.